"Elizabeth of York (d.1503 in childbirth, aged 38) is the queen on playing cards, wife of Henry VII, her second husband. Her wedding carpet was torn up by souvenir hunters before she set foot on it. When her eldest son, Arthur, died she told the king: 'God is where he was and we are both young enough'."
Inspired by Jane Austen's History of England, this dictionary of English Queens, Kings Wives, Celebrated Paramours', Handfast Spouses and Royal Changelings was compiled by JL Carr as one of the first Pocket Books in the series.
It is dedicated to Frideswide (c.753) "a young lady, wise beyond her years, who anticipating marriage to a savage boar, similar to the many littering these pages, refused queenship, preferring a life of contemplative virginity in a pigsty at Binsey Abbey"
Carr's Dictionary of English Queens
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Pocket-sized at 13 x 9.5cm (5 x 3.5" in old money) and comprising 16 pages with a firm card cover. This little volume is just one in the series of Carr's Pocket Books; they hover between a greeting and a present and make a lasting alternative to a birthday card. In cold bedrooms, only one hand need suffer exposure. A distinguished novelist recommends them for reading in the bath and an ambassador claims they can be palmed from the cuff during tedious speeches or profitless sermons.Delivery Information
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